Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 14, 2023

Cat scratched fever!

Harmonica in frame 2?

You’re lookin’ at him! 8^ )

Women folk love spending money

The furniture looks fine to me.

A scratch or two here and there.

Luther’s claws know what’s wrong with that sofa.

He had to go simmer a bit.

Who tosses a harmonica??? Keep it! Or definitely for Yard Sale.

Well Arlo, for starters you are sitting on Ludwig’s scratching post…

Does Janis work? She seems awfully keen on spending a buck for things she already has. If she had to put forth the effort in earning the dollars for new furniture, she’d probably find the furniture she has to be quite sufficient!

Noooo! Don’t just throw away the harmonica! Hmm, maybe it’s one of those cheap plastic ones that never really worked. And I guess it’s not just young people who don’t want “old, brown” furniture.

If we “DO” move ????

talk to Luddie, he at least listens…

We keep talking about getting a real sofa for the entertainment room and ditching the futon. Going on four years, but as you might guess, we haven’t done much entertaining since Jan. 2020.

Scrapped my old couch and didn’t have one. Later bought a 2 door Jeep Wrangler with a back seat, I didn’t need. I got it disconnected and built a base and now it is my couch with a throw over it.

I refer to it as ‘lived in’.

My Janis and I never have yard sales. Instead, we donate everything that we no longer need or want to our local St. Vincent de Paul or Salvation Army.

If something is not good enough to donate, we put it in the alley for the scavengers and “junk men.” Poof. Gone in sixty seconds.

For some, moving is just the excuse they need to go shopping! New furniture… and of course with new furniture you need new drapes, paint color, carpeting…everything! Typically unplanned and added to the debt pile at the end, at least in my experience.

Old stuff…new house….new stuff…………

Nothing’s wrong with it; you just have too much of it, Arlo.

unsolved

cat shredded furniture in frame 4

Uh… You’re going to move??? Sell off EVERYTHING. Move. Then buy NEW stuff.

Can’t recall where I heard this saying but I can testify to its truthfulness. People should move at least every 10 years just to get rid of all the junk they have accumulated

Nothing that moving to a new location couldn’t fix.

It’s stuff and nothing special. You only save special stuff……

One of my greatest joys in the last couple of years was finally getting rid of the old, cat-damaged arm chairs and sofa we originally inherited from my grandparents-in-law about 30 years ago and replacing it with beautiful new arts and crafts furniture. Made the whole room look better. Of course, we still have the cats, so when there’s no company over, the chairs keep on their slip covers (nice cloth ones) to keep the kitties’ claws at bay.

Friend of ours retired early and moved back to his home state this summer. Sold or gave away anything that didn’t fit in his SUV. Said while he liked his things, it was less expensive and less hassle than moving everything, and he liked the idea of having a fresh start.

Isn’t the condo already furnished?

Panel 3 makes it look like Arlo just passed a star. Why is pain represented with a star and a squiggly line underneath?

I have a bureau that I bought from a second hand store for my first apartment 50 years ago. It’s a great, well made piece of furniture. It has moved many times.

Arlo, there is nothing wrong with your stuff. Except for that old phone. It doesn’t fit in your pocket.

“times are ruff. I got too much stuff.” I thought you would have reacted on Labor Day weekend :(

We had our sofas reupholstered, and they are fabulous.